Cabinet drawer and case.



D. E. HUNTER.

CABINET DRAWER AND CASE.

APPLICATION nusu DEC.26. 1914.

Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

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CABINET DRAWER AND CASE.

APPLICATION man DEC.26, 1914.

Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

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M1 ATTORNEY To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES "PAT NT onnron.

DAVID E. HUNTER, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHAW WALKER COMPANY, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

cnnmnr DRAWER am) CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 191a.v

Application filed December 26, 1914. Serial No. 878,996. 7

Be it known that I, DAVID E. HUNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cabinet Drawers and Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to cabinet drawers and their cases. When cabinet drawers (especially such as are provided with anti-friction bearings) are quickly closed, they are liable to rebound into a partially open position. Sometimes too, drawers remain, when intended to be closed, in such a partially open position, or for other causes they may be thus partially opened after being closed. Their contents are of course, thus exposed to dust, etc.; and any automatic. locking device with which the structure may be furnished, remains (on account of their partially open position) out of operative engagement with the drawers.

The object of my present invention is to overcome such difiiculties by providing means whereby the rebound of the drawer upon being closed maybe checked, and also whereby the drawer when partially open by its rebound or otherwise, may be automatically entirely closed. This and any other objects appearing hereinafter are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the organization hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view in perspective of a cabinet case and drawersto which my invention is applied; Fig. 2 is an internal side view of a portion of such case provided with a progression drawer slide in closed position; Fig. 3 is a similar view, but showing the drawer slide in open or extended position; Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of such drawer taken on a plane corresponding with line 4'4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a side view of a drawer and vertical sectional -view of a drawer case (without a drawer slide) to which my invention is applied; Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the same on a plane corresponding to line 66 of Fig. 5; and-Fig. 7 is a vertical longitudinal section of a drawer with its case, and illustrating'a modified construction.

In the embodiments of my invention chosen for detailed description and illustration by the drawings, Figs. 1,- 2, 3 and 4 show a case and drawer provided with what is commonly known as a progression anti-friction drawer slide on which the drawer is reciprocatingly mounted in the case. This drawer slide comprises a primaryslide member 1 carried on the inner surface of each of the sides 2 of the case 3 and has a tra 5 in which is adapted to travel the intermediate slide member 6,

ries the drawer 8 has a sustaining flange 13 supported by and traveling on said roller 7 and the roller 14 and, (when the drawer is pushed in) on the roller 9, the upward thrust of such ultimate slide member when drawn out being resisted or sustained by a roller 15. A suitable stop 16 against which the lug 10 strikes, limits the outward move ment of the intermediate slide member and the ultimate slide members outward movement is limited by asuitable stop 17 on the intermediate member- A suitable buffer 21, preferably of rubber, carried at the inner end of the intermediate member, may be provided to receive the stroke of the back 22 of the case on one side and that of the inner end of the drawer 0n theother, when the drawer is pushed in.

My present invention consists in providing means for yieldingly holding the drawer closed and for yieldingly resisting the rebound of the drawer when closed; and further, for automatically closing the partially open drawer or for returning it to its closed position after such rebound.

Inthe construction above described, such A means comprise a depression 25 in the track '26 into whichthe roller 9 is in like manner by gravity (the weight of the drawers, etc.)and preferably a similar depression adapted to enter and rest,-when the drawer is closed, as shown in Fig. 2. To insure the closing of the partially open drawer, or the returning of it to entirely closed posi-' tion after its rebound, I provide also an incline 27 on the opposite side of the track 5 in a vertical direction from the depression; that is, in the construction now being de scribed and shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4,

I the incline is upward and the depression downward from the level of the track. The roller 14 travels up this incline in the first portion of the drawers movement from its closed position. This incline extends outwardly far enough to carry the roller 14 a to yieldingly hold the drawer closed and to resist its rebound; but should this tendency be overcome, then the incline serves to return the drawer to closed position.

Figs. 5 and 6 show a case 30 and a drawer 31 of simple form, 2'. e. without an intervening drawer slide. In this embodiment the roller 32 carried 'near the inner end of the drawer rolls on a track 33 on the case, which track has a depression 34 cobperating with such roller as do the depressions 25 and 26 with the rollers 7 and 9 in the other construction described above. The under side edge 35 of the drawer forms a movable track on which rolls the roller 36 mounted on the case, andhas anincline 37 near its outer end, cotiperating with such roller as does the incline 27 with the roller 14 in said other construction. It is thusseen to be immaterial whether there be one track having the depression or depressions and the incline, or

Whether there be two tracks one of which has the depression and the other the incline; or whether the roller is carried by the drawer and the track by thecase, or vice versa.

In. the embodiment off my invention shown in Fig. 7, I provide aleaf spring 40 mounted on the case, and a lug 41 having inclined outer and inner faces carried by;

the drawer. As the drawer ispushed in,

the lug engages and rides'over and its low point 42 passes beyond the high point 43 of the spring whichby its engagement with the inclined inner face of the lugyieldingly holds it closed and tends to close it if it is not drawn out far enough for the lugs low struction shown or described, I claim 1. In an organization ofv the character described, a case, a drawer reciprocatingly mounted in the case, means for yieldingly resisting the rebound of the drawer from its closed position, and means coacting with. the

first-mentioned means in yieldingly resisting such rebound, and adapted to automatically return the drawer to its closed position after the rebound has been checked byithe first-mentioned means.

2. In an organization of the character dc scribed, a case member, a drawer member, rollers carried by one member, and a track carried by the other member and having a depression into which one roller is adapted to enter by gravity in the drawers closed position, and an incline oppositely disposed in a vertical direction fromthe depression, on 1 which the other roller is adapted to travel 5 in the first portion of the drawers movement from its closed position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing .wit

nesses.

DAVID E. HUNTER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. VANDYKE, ANDREW B. Nnvms. 

